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Analysis of ornament : the characteristics of styles : an introduction to the study of the history of ornamental art : being an outline of a course of sixteen lectures on that subject, originally prepared for the government schools of design in the years 1848, 1849, 1850

Archive Print Item: Bedford Collection A235

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Type of record: Book

Title: Analysis of ornament : the characteristics of styles : an introduction to the study of the history of ornamental art : being an outline of a course of sixteen lectures on that subject, originally prepared for the government schools of design in the years 1848, 1849, 1850

Other titles: Characteristics of styles

Level: Item

Classmark: Bedford Collection A235

Creator(s): Wornum, Ralph Nicholson (1812-1877)

Additional creator(s): Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019) (Former owner); Barclay, George (Printer)

Publisher: Chapman and Hall; Printed by G. Barclay, Castle St., Leicester Sq

Publication city: London

Date(s): 1856

Language: English

Size and medium: 112 pages, 27 unnumbered leaves of plates (1 folded)

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/722699

Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991019794490605181

Description

Illustrative matter by or after E. Sheldrick, M. Rees, M.A. Sulman, A.F.F., G. Halliday, J.F. Swallow, A. Finden, H.M.S., G. Mateaux, M.M. Hutton, S.A. Wheeler, and H.M. Sparling. "... the engraved cuts... have been chiefly executed ... by the female students of the Wood-engraving Class at Marlborough House."--Page iv.


Includes bibliographical references.

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Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection A235: Brown publisher's cloth binding, gold-tooled title and cypher of Queen Victoria.

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Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection A235: From the John Evan Bedford Library, gifted in 2019. Twenty-first-century pictorial bookplate on front pastedown: John Evan Bedford. Former reference: ST/43. Bookplate with crest on front pastedown: Tenez le droit. MS. inscription on front flyleaf: W. Clifton, Austin Friars. MS. annotations in pencil on some pages.

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